OMG
Is this topic still a topic?
Emirates has all the service it needs or should ever need to this country, full stop.
Because not getting what they want interferes with their plan to 'dominate the airline world' which might well be in danger if too many countries also tell them to pi**off. Well, exxcuuuuuuse us.
Whatever happened to free enterprise?
Easy that. It doesn't exist in the world of airlines and state protectionism.
unless, of course, you're talking about someone very near the top rung of a dictatorial regime who has (had) wodges of money and influence to buy and finance their very own airline. Purchase a huge widebody fleet of "the world's largest passenger aeroplanes" to serve every concieveable market in the world without the slightest expectation of resistance from lesser financially able countries, like Canada.
Well, that someone, as it turns out, would be wrong in that assumption.
Willie Everlearn